Hours after soldiers of the 7th
Division of the Nigerian Army
celebrated the killing of over
70 Boko Haram terrorists
after repelling attack on a
village near Maiduguri, the
insurgents have launched
fresh attacks on two towns
near Potiskum, residents
have told PREMIUM TIMES.
The attacks are still going on
as the time of filing this
report, witnesses said.
The two towns under attacks
are Damagum in Fune local
government area and
Mamudo in Potiskum local
government.
came under heavy attack of
suspected Boko Haram
terrorists when residents of
the neighbouring towns were
about to retire back to their
homes on Friday.
Mallam Yahaya, a business
merchant in Damagum,
informed PREMIUM TIMES on
telephone that he and other
residents began to hear
gunshots at about 6p.m.
“The shooting started at
about 6p.m shortly after the
late evening prayers; we
didn’t know what was
happening but when it
became persistent as we
continued to hear the
shooting coming from the
direction of the local
government secretariat, we
had to flee to our homes,”
Mr. Yahaya said.
“We are still lying down on
our bellies now as I speak
and everywhere is quite but
we continued to hear periodic
shooting and many sounds of
motorcycles moving around
the streets; that makes us to
fear that our town may have
been taken over by Boko
Haram because no one is
allowed by the soldiers to ride
motorcles once it’s 6pm.
Details of the ongoing attack
is sketchy at this time as the
police and the military cannot
be reached for comments.
Meanwhile, soldiers of the
Nigerian Army yesterday said
they killed 75 members of the
Boko Haram sect at Bulabulin
village near Damboa town of
Borno state as the insurgents
attacked the town.
An electricity company
official, who witnessed the
incident as he worked
alongside some of his
colleagues fixing some of the
destroyed electric
installations said “they were
many in number when they
came to town, but it was as if
the soldiers were aware of
their coming, so they laid
ambush and then opened fire
on them, killing over 70 of
them while many others
abandoned their vehicles and
fled.
A soldier in Maiduguri, who
cannot be named in this
report because he was not
authorised to speak to the
media, confirmed the
incident.
In the seized town of Gwoza,
reports coming through local
hunters said the Boko Haram
gunmen in charge of the area
have begun serial massacre
of old men and women who
could not flee from the
captured territories.
Muhammed Gava, an
operative with the Nigeria
Vigilante Group, who is an
indigene of Gwoza town and
resident of Maiduguri, said
“we heard that more than 50
old men and women have
been forcefully taken to
Government Day Secondary
School, Gwoza, where they
would assemble them and
then open fire on some of
them”.
He said a relative from
Gwoza who spoke to him
from the top of the
mountains using phone lines
tapped from Cameroonian
networks said “more people
are being forced to assemble
in other areas like
Dhimankara, Ville,
Kuranabasa, Gudugum and
some other nearby villages
and being taken to Uvaghe
Central Primary school“.
There has not been any
official statement in regard of
these attacks.
source:
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/173572-yobe-borno-villages-boko-haram-attacks.html

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